The Big Data Value Association celebrated its General Assembly last November 30th in Valencia, Spain. Among other important topics, the BDVA members were called to elect and renew over two thirds of the members of its Board of Directors, and to elect President, one Vice President and Treasurer (two-year mandate).

We are pleased to officially communicate the composition of the new Board of Directors of BDVA, and the new leadership team as follows:

The BDVA Secretary General, accompanied by representatives from Fraunhofer, Siemens and ATOS took part in a follow-up working group on Digitising European Industry on October 21st. A common BDVA approach to establishing a European Industrial Data Platform was communicated, together with the presentation of individual BDVA member initiatives including the Industrial Data Space (Fraunhofer) and (MindSphere) Siemens.

The BigDataEurope project's upcoming Webinar is featuring one of Apache Flink’s biggest committers, Kostas Tzoumas, CEO of dataArtisans. Apache Flink is an open source framework for distributed stream and batch data processing that provides an execution environment for transforming unbounded data sets where the time dimension is critical. That makes it ideal for working in areas like transport and Internet of Things where data comes as streams from sensors and where the value of that data is highly time-dependent.

The BDVA (Big Data Value Association) launched its yearly community survey for monitoring the Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The objective of the community survey is to engage with the wider Big Data community to ensure a comprehensive perspective concerning the technical and business impact of the SRIA technical and non-technical priorities as well as to identify emerging priorities with high impact for the European big data economy. The results of the community survey will be used as input for the regular SRIA update.

If you are an expert, interested or working in the European big data economy, we invite you to share your opinion by answering the short questionnaire on http://bdva.sirap.sgizmo.com/s3/.

Following on from the joint position paper recently approved by BDVA (Big Data Value Association and ETP4HPC (European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing), BDVA had an important participation at the last EXDCI’s (European Extreme Data & Computing Initiative) workshop in Barcelona. The objective of the workshop was to coordinate the development and implementation of a common strategy for the European HPC Ecosystem.

BDVA and BDVA members will have strong presence and participation at ICT proposers day 2016 in Bratislava (Sep 26-27) to support the dissemination of the Big Data Value PPP and to facilitate the engagement in this initiative of industry, academia and user organisations interested in big data and data-driven economy.

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The European Big Data Value Strategic Research Innovation Agenda (SRIA) defines the overall goals, main technical and non-technical priorities, and a research and innovation road-map for the European contractual Public Private Partnership (cPPP) on Big Data Value.